i would like to see good dev commentary in more things

the dev commentary in valve games is so interesting and useful and educative, but their games come out once every 10 years or so and most of the rest that i’ve seen do commentary have done it badly

it’s usually either self-serving pr-type junk or just sort of rambly nothing. what’s the missing ingredient here? the valve commentary is clearly people reading from a pretty concise, edited-down script, but without a lot of complexity sanded off it. i wonder what the process is there

the half-life 2 fan mod “half-life 2: update” which seems to be just about trying to fix minor bugs and graphical glitches inexplicably has “dev commentary” from just random guys who worked on the mod, including the “lead commentary writer”, which is the funniest shit ever to me